Theodore Roosevelt sends his "profound gratitude" to Albert Strauss and his firm, J. & W. Seligman & Co., for their letter to the State Treasurer, James Lee Wells. Roosevelt is proud of his fellow Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Alexander Brin for his letter. Roosevelt believes America's influence in the world has waned because of the course the government has taken for the past year and a quarter. He does not think the U.S. would wield much authority at a peace conference, since the U.S. ca...